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The throne is the very best that is in us. Our guilt is our pissing upon that throne.

:- Doug.

My whole work is conversation:
Ever a colon:
A meeting:
An opening:
No periods

:- Doug.

Conversation is not namby-pamby. It is the hardest work in the world and you don’t know how to do it. It must be invented anew each turning.

:- Doug.

Living in the meeting: only here, only hear.

:- Doug.

Law our age sees as yoke and chain and fate. Yet one can work within the law, even approach using the law, if one is aware of choices. That is the point: we can still choose. Life can meet life and thrive, for law means living well with.

:- Doug.

The work of being of God entails decisions as well as labor, inventing a way as well as morality, choosing a work as well as waiting for orders.

:- Doug.

Opening to God is opening to the larger all about.

:- Doug.

I love the word invent for in its modern meaning it is about creating something new, and in its ancient meaning it is about finding what’s already there. I love the ambiguity, but more than that, I love the evocative. We can both create something new and find something that’s always been present.

:- Doug.

We live best when we live integral lives, lives of one thread: thus we are less likely to unravel.

:- Doug.

It is not easy to remember and to do, to bring the practice of the presence to your life, but that is why we are here, yes: to work it out in our own lives?

:- Doug.

When I was 50, I woke up one day realizing I could not remember what I liked to do. I think this is pretty general. Perhaps our culture teaches us we need to give up depth of life in order to have an income, to give up life to get our living.

:- Doug.

It is not that God reaches down and puts ideas in this one or that, but that God is all about between and is current flowing in which we are awash.

:- Doug.

Not experienced but lived. Not utilized but received.

:- Doug.

I am working on my compassion.

:- Doug.

Care can be a commercial transaction. Caring is compassion.

:- Doug.

I’m not a connector: you are already connected. I simply invite you to meet your family.

:- Doug.

The metaphors we choose are often the oceans in which we swim also sleep.

:- Doug.

When someone reaches out to us, divinity reaches out to us.

:- Doug.

The world is more both/and than either/or.

:- Doug.

Care is a word people use to say what they sell; Caring is a word I use to describe who I am.

:- Doug.

When we order things, we are about history, using what we know of these things from the past. With people when we invite them to display all the humanity and new in them, we respect them beyond things.

:- Doug.

There are many ways to advocate. We can advocate by counseling.

:- Doug.

Doctors are in danger of relegating their profession to the role of technicians, to be consulted only when there is an unusual problem or when we need a prescription-writer. Day to day and month to month care plans are abdicated to the people who are there daily: nurses, social workers, and family. But wouldn’t doctors want to be part of this?

:- Doug.